Literature Under U.S. Colonialism
Prepared by: Conejar, Kareen Joy E.
Submitted by : Ms. Jackielyn M. Hebia
Philippine literature during the American rule was influenced by two factors, first of which is, education. With the Americans providing free education, many were given the chance to study and English was used as the language of instruction. Unlike the Spanish, the foreigners were willing to teach their language to the Filipinos. Free education served as the stepping stone for others to improve their social status.
Early literary works in English showed styles of which is American. It can also be seen that writers who just started learning English cannot fully showcase their talent because of the lack of mastery of the language.
Writers during the American Period drew ideas from the Propaganda Movement and the Revolutionary Movement to encourage the Filipinos to continue to fight against the U.S. Colonialism. The demand for independence was supported by a campaign to make the Americans aware of the Filipino culture.
Literary Period
Notable Authors and their Works
F
Play Aurelio tolentino Kahapon ngayon at bukas Mena Pecson Crisologo Neneng o Pinagpalang kapangyarihan ng
Pag-ibig
Short StoryDeogracas S. Rosario Greta GarboManuel E. Arguilla A Son is bornMagdalena Jalandoni Si AnabellaMarcel navarro At ako’y inanodWilfredo Ma. Guerrero Wanted : A Chaperon
NovelFautino Aguilar Kay pait ng pamumuhay pinaglahuanCarlos Bulosan Two face of America
From America is in the heart
Poems
Cecilo Apostol Al heroe NactionalPedro Gatmaitan PinaglahuanBenigno ramos AsyendaJose corazon de Jesus Kamay ng berhin
SalampiGardeopatra Quijano Kon/KungEvangeline Guerrero Though you Tell Me Not
Play
Aurellio Tolentino
Was A Filipino dramatist and playwright.
Born in Santo Christo, Guagua Pampanga.
Kahaon ngayon at Bukas
Mena Pecso Crisologo
A Ilocano literature contributed . Sha was a dramatist,and novalist.
Literary historians and critics of Literature in the regions have yet established. under U.S. Colonial rule who Inevitably figure in research outputs and studies.
Neneng o Pinagpalang kapangyarihan ng Pag-ibig
Short Story
Marcel Navarra
She was a Short story writter . At Ako’y
inianod
Wilfred Ma. guerrero
Was a Filipino playwright, Teacher and theater artist.
Ha has written well over a hundred plays, 41 of which have been published.
His published plays have either been broadcast over the radio or staged in various parts of the Philippines.
Wanted : A Chaperon
Deogracias S. Rosario
Greta GarboHe was a writer using English who imbibed literary influences coming into Philippine Literature through the school.
Father of the “Tagalog Short Story ’’.Tagalog writers uninitiated the arc of the story.
Manuel Arguilla
A Son is born
Were the finest short story writers of their time, and between of two of them, Were in (1910- 1944).
A writers Club And editor of the University ;s Literary Apprentice.
Magdalena
Jalandoni
Si Anabella
She was a
Novelist and
Poet.
She was one of
the author during the U.S.
Colonial rule.
Poems
Jose Corazon de
Jesus (1
894-
1932)
Kamay Ng Birhen
He was a Poet and a playwright.Was born Inn Manila and In Santa Maria, Bulacan.
He also wrote lyrics for songs,One of them constancio de Guzman’s Bayan ko.
A Woman can make or
Unmake a man. A Woman can do wonders.
That the hands of a virgin have a power to transform even hardened criminals into good men.
SalapiMoney is like fire: an EXCELENT SERVANT, but a CRUEL MASTER
Money, the love of it, the lack of it.the things it can do for you, what you can do it with it, how to make it earn, that’s what makes some pepole’s go around.
- Bebe Lontoc
Lope K. Santos
He was a Filipino Tagalog language writer and former senator of the Philippines.
He nest known for his 1906 socialist novel. He also a native of Pasig.
Hinigop ng sugal
Evangeline guerrero
She was a poet, journalist in the Spanish language.
She was the eldest daughter of the “ Prince of the Filipino lyric Poetry “.
•Though You Tell Me not
Benigno Ramos
He was known as the Balagtasan poem.
Introduce social content, making the contestant proponents of specific philosophical/political positions.
Panulat
Gardeopata Quijano
As a young woman, she was inspired to be independent and not shy from every opportunity that women sparsely had at the time.
started writing when she was a teenager. She is a poet, a fictionist and an essayist. She wrote her poems, stories and essays in Cebuano.
“And if I were the wind,Oh, I’d tease the flowers,I’d scatter to all cornersThe fallen petals,So their fragrance would remain
A trail of scent for the poet.”
Kon /Kung
Cecilo Apostol
Cecilio Apóstol was a Filipino poet. His poems were once used to teach the Spanish language under the Republic Act No. 1881.
Cecilo Apostol
Al Heroe Nactional/ To The National Hero
Rizal the evolution and the perfidy of the American invaders.
He was the National theater excellent support , and he was also a poet.
.
Pedro Gatmaitan
He was a youthful poets.
The patriotic poems in the book range in tone playfully ironic to the oratorical and exhortative.
Pinaglahuan
Novel
Fautino Aguilar
He was a Social Novelist. A novel that gives a penetrating analysis of Philippine society at the beginning of the American rule.
Kay hirap ng pamumuhay panaglahuan
The discriminating choice of substantiating details , and sensitivity of a superior novelist.
Aguilar’s novel revolves around the rich girl Danding whose love for a factory clerk had to give way to her parent’s wish to marry her off to the business magnate Rojalde who would organizer in the American firm where he works.
Carlos Buloson Two face of America/ From
America is in the Heart
The American as in
the heart was a
painful record of
experience of a
Filipino who did not
find his American
dream.
He came face to face
with a side of America
that he had not been
told about in school.
A Filipino peasant
boy who had landed
in the U.S. at the
start of the Great
Depression.
References
Cynthia Lumbera. “Philippine Literature” A History and Analogy. Manila :National Bookstore, 1981.
Joaquin, Nick. “The Philippine as Sajonista,” Rediscovery , Cynthia Lumbera and Teresita G. Maceda. Manila Bookstore, 1981.
Renato Constantino, A Past Revisited ( Quezon City): Malaya Books, Inc;1966
Teodoro A. Agoncillo and Oscar Alfonso, A History of the Filipino People, Rev.ed. (Quezon City: Malaya Book, 1967)p.429.